Spanish towns offer new home for statues targeted by protests in US

Monuments to Spanish colonial-era figures have been attacked or removed but still have their supporters in the old country

A handful of towns in Spain have sought to wade into America's reckoning with its past, offering to rehome controversial statues targeted over their links to colonialism and centuries of genocide against indigenous peoples in the Americas.

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